Stimulating passion for innovation

Jiro Suzuki writes:

"The way to creating more innovative and idea-driven people does not necessarily lie in having computer skills or a computer in every classroom. Teaching students how to use a computer is like teaching children the alphabet. Knowing the letters of the alphabet, just like learning how to use Microsoft Word, is not what enables a person to create, invent or dream up ideas. Being able to write does not mean a person will be able to produce a haiku (Japanese poem).
The focus of education should be on the thinking technique. Education should aspire not to fill students with knowledge and information, but to teach them the ability to relate to the information and knowledge. Thinking scholars have the ability to look at a set of disparate facts or circumstances, identify a common ground and from there, conceive or generate new ideas.
We also need to find ways to make our students and citizens more emotionally sensitive individuals. Successful innovators are often sensitive and attuned to emotions — music, film and the arts. It is this sensitivity, which some associate with moodiness, that creates perfectionists."